■Foreword

Why I Select Microscopic Study; A Person I Met around the Age of Twenty

Shinichi Ohno

■In Memoriam

In Memory of Prof. Isamu Kondo

Teruo Suzuki

■Feature Articles: Imaging Cytoskeletons

Imaging Cytoskeletons

Masahide Kikkawa

Structural Analysis for Actin Filaments in the Cell by Electron Tomography

Akihiro Narita

Combination Analysis of Fluorescence Single-Molecule Imaging with Other Microscopic Techniques Elucidates Actin Turnover Mechanisms in Living Cells

Naoki Watanabe and Tai Kiuchi

Ultrastructural Insights into Augmin-Dependent Microtubule Nucleation in the Spindle

Tomoko Kamasaki and Ryota Uehara

Multi-method Analysis of Chlamydomonas Flagellar Motility—From Electron Microscopy to Cell Biology—

Toshiyuki Oda and Masahide Kikkawa

■Reviews

Application of Ionic Liquid as a Liquid Conductive Material to Electron Microscopy

Susumu Kuwabata

Immuno Correlative Microscopy in Solution Using Atmospheric Scanning Electron Microscope (ASEM): Observation of Dynamic Rearrangements of Molecular Complexes

Tatsuhiko Ebihara, Toshiyuki Murai, Hidetoshi Nishiyama, Mari Sato, Mitsuo Suga and Chikara Sato

■Lectures

Targeting Ultrastuctural Observation of Biological Samples by Using Capsule-Supporting Ring

Nobuyasu Takahashi, Fumiyo Toyoshima and Akira Sawaguchi

Development and Application of Scanning Probe Microscopy with Externally Applied Stress and Strain

Daisuke Fujita

■Researches Today

The Discovery of an Organism with a Cellular Structure Intermediate between Those of Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes

Masashi Yamaguchi

200 kV Atomic Resolution Analytical Electron Microscope Equipped with a Monochromator

Masaki Mukai, Eiji Okunishi, Masanori Ashino, Kazuya Omoto, Tomohisa Fukuda, Akihiro Ikeda, Kazunori Somehara, Toshikatsu Kaneyama, Tomohiro Saitoh, Tsukasa Hirayama and Yuichi Ikuhara

■Special Article

Present and Future Views in SEM Techniques

Sachiko Inazato, Hirohide Otobe, Mika Yamashita, Kyouko Yonemitsu, Syunya Watanabe, Mami Konomi, Toshiko Kuba, Masateru Shibata, Hisao Moriya, Mamiko Sato, Emi Shindo and Noriko Murai

■Conference Reports

Report on the 69^th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Microscopy

Seiji Takeda and Manabu Ishimaru

■Staff Commentary

Masahide Kikkawa